{"id":4306,"date":"2025-06-13T09:03:16","date_gmt":"2025-06-13T06:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lauluvaljak.ee\/malestuspingid\/cyrillus-kreek\/"},"modified":"2025-09-18T16:16:03","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T13:16:03","slug":"cyrillus-kreek","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.lauluvaljak.ee\/en\/malestuspingid\/cyrillus-kreek\/","title":{"rendered":"Cyrillus Kreek (3. detsember 1889 \u2013 26. m\u00e4rts 1962)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Cyrillus Kreek<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

(3. December 1889 \u2013 26. March 1962)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Composer, Choir Conductor, and Folk Music Researcher \u2013 Shaper of the National Musical Language.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cyrillus Kreek was one of the most influential shapers of Estonia\u2019s national musical language, with his music consisting almost entirely of arrangements and adaptations of Estonian folk songs. The majority of his compositions are choral works.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He began his musical studies at the Nikolai Congregation School in Haapsalu and, in 1908, enrolled in the trombone class at the St. Petersburg Conservatory, where he also continued studying composition and music theory. His studies were interrupted by the First World War, after which Kreek began working as a music teacher in Estonia, teaching in Haapsalu, Rakvere, Tartu, and Tallinn. He was a lecturer at the Tartu Higher Music School and taught theoretical subjects at the Tallinn Conservatory (1940\u20131941, 1944\u20131950), becoming head of the Department of Theory in 1947.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>